Doris Pfardrescher’s Well Go USA have made what I deem to be their first major film acquisition today, picking up Andrew Lau’s Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen before (not after) it preems at the Venice and Toronto Int. Film Festival in the coming weeks. The material arts film continues the tradition of the character of Chen Zen – needless to mention to martial arts film fans that the character was incarnated by Bruce Lee in Fists of Fury and Jet Li in Fist of Legend.
In 1920s Shanghai, seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, a mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
